Do mechanical turks dream of square pie charts?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-70

  Kosara, Robert ^a   Ziemkiewicz, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Mechanical Turk

Indexed keywords

AMAZON'S MECHANICAL TURKS; COMMON PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MECHANICAL TURKS; PIE CHART; STUDY DESIGN;

ERRORS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84857608823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2110192.2110202     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. O. Alonso, D. E. Rose, and B. Stewart. Crowdsourcing for relevance evaluation. SIGIR Forum, 42(2):9-15, 2008.
2. Amazon mechanical turk. http://mturk.com/.
3. N. Cawthon and A. V. Moere. The effect of aesthetic on the usability of data visualization. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV), pages 637-645. IEEE CS Press, 2007. (Pubitemid 47591803)
4. F. Cole, K. Sanik, D. DeCarlo, A. Finkelstein, T. Funkhouser, S. Rusinkiewicz, and M. Singh. How well do line drawings depict shape? In Proceedings SIGGRAPH, pages 1-9. ACM, 2009.
5. CrowdFlower. http://crowdower.com/.
6. M. B. Donnellan, F. L. Oswald, B. M. Baird, and R. E. Lucas. The mini-ipip scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the big five factors of personality. Psychological Assessment, 18(2):192-203, 2006. (Pubitemid 44106660)
7. J. Heer and M. Bostock. Crowdsourcing graphical perception: Using mechanical turk to assess visualization design. In Proceedings CHI, 2010.
8. A. Kittur, E. H. Chi, and B. Suh. Crowdsourcing user studies with mechanical turk. In Proceedings CHI, volume Data Collection, pages 453-456. ACM Press, 2008.
9. A. Koblin. The sheep market. http://www.thesheepmarket.com/.
10. R. Kosara, C. G. Healey, V. Interrante, D. H. Laidlaw, and C. Ware. Thoughts on user studies: Why, how, and when. Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), Visualization Viewpoints, 23(4):20-25, July/August 2003.
11. G. Little, L. B. Chilton, R. C. Miller, and M. Goldman. Turkit. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/turkit/.
12. J. Ross, A. Zaldivar, L. Irani, and B. Tomlinson. Who are the turkers? worker demographics in amazon mechanical turk. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jwross/ pubs/SocialCode-2009-01.pdf.
13. B. Shneiderman. Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 11:92-99, 1992.
14. F. van Ham and B. E. Rogowitz. Perceptual organization in user-generated graph layouts. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6):1333-1339, 2008.
15. C. Ziemkiewicz and R. Kosara. The shaping of information by visual metaphors. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6):1269-1276, 2008.
16. C. Ziemkiewicz and R. Kosara. Design elements and the perception of information structure. In InfoVis Posters/VisWeek DVD, 2009.
17. C. Ziemkiewicz and R. Kosara. Preconceptions and individual differences in understanding visual metaphors. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), 28(3):911-918, 2009.